Only if you buy a Morgan. Otherwise you're getting ABS, traction control, yaw control, driver and passenger airbags, and the aforementioned backup camera. All that stuff has been mandatory on new production vehicles sold in the USA since 2010, and the camera is coming next year. It doesn't have to be digital, though. If they're not putting any other screen in the car, or if it's not doing anything high-res, it could well be analog.

Yeah, one of the ways in which we got Bush was that machines like these used in Florida were set to silently accept errors instead of rejecting them.

No, because they are "use once, then throw away your vote" items.

It's safer to just put a solar panel on the roof, my car has it integrated into the sunroof. When the interior temperature rises sufficiently and the panel is sunlit then it runs the blower motor to keep the car cool. Sadly, it ignores the ambient temperature sensor and has no concept of humidity, so in some conditions the sun can hit your car, heat it up before the surroundings, and suck damp cold air into the vehicle and humidify it. In the normal course of the day, though, it will blow warm air through after it, and the air at least comes through the cabin air filters.

Probably not. But the springs break in lots of Mercedes seats, and so they're candidates too. A lot of people shore them up with a pool noodle. If you can find a fairly compatible spring, you can splice it into the broken section from below after removing the seat without even having to pull the upholstery, which you don't want to do.

Ah yes, Ford. They went to 32-bit PCMs when Hitachi at least (and Bosch too, I think) was still using 6800-family chips. A computer on wheels, indeed.

Like a Ford Fiesta?

That's irrelevant. Read up on DTOA, differential time of arrival. TL;DR: It's like GPS in reverse, with multiple cell sites used to triangulate your position based on your cellular radio emissions.

Seems to me like making the surface one big corner reflector would guarantee the maximum absorption. A DVD or CD has space between the tracks, but a corner reflector is guaranteed to reflect twice at a broad variety of angles...

A Jet Li disc would not only accomplish this, but it would do it after it said it wouldn't.

You are a troll, yes? You know that thin film PV panels pay back the energy cost of their production in three years? And that even though PV solar is the least energy-efficient, it's profitable right now? You must be a troll, there can't be anybody out there who doesn't know this stuff.

This does not appear to be a reply to my comment, but that's where you left it. Care to expound, or are you simply schizophrenic? The fact that cars cost multiple thousands of dollars is the reason why it's worth it to spend a grand or more on tools for stealing them. Get some easy scores from cars without good security, work your way up, like any other job.

No, no it hasn't. The left is still where it always was, and so is the right. We still have the same degree of far leftists and far rightists that we've always had. What we have is different proportions, but that doesn't actually change what the left and right are. It only makes the democrats liars when they claim to be leftist, since they are centrists.

You, if you either claim not to know what the "copyright cartel" is, or claim to be interested in copyright. Both cannot reasonably be true.

Because they get the money up front, that's how this sort of thing works, you are not very smart.

Wow, you're staggeringly stupid. People aren't going to pay for movies up front when they have the option to pay for movies which have already been made, because they are too stupid to realize that in the current system, they're paying for movies that they're not even watching. That's called competition, boy. Here's a nickel, you don't need it to access dictionary.com.

When will you learn to use the internets, including important features like a search engine? But frankly, I believe that your obtuseness is entirely disingenuous. You cannot have an interest in this subject and not be familiar with that phrase.

Of course they would. They'd make a profit, too. They might not be able to make the kind of fuck-you profits they make now, not least through that aforementioned creative accounting.

It's not about prevention. It's about not being able to compete with someone who is successfully gaming the system.

The radio is not a radio any more, it's a control unit (in many cases) and it changes powertrain and suspension settings. it legitimately needs to be able to communicate with stuff that's on that bus. But it should be doing it through a gateway which only permits the necessary signals...

I want remote features, but nobody should be able to drive away with the vehicle without actually having the key, and nobody should be able to reflash the vehicle without actually physically accessing it. Once they are in, though, there's very little you can do to prevent them. For cars which cost multiple thousands of dollars, it's not difficult to imagine someone spending a few hundred on a PCM and a couple hundred per model they want to steal making up a harness ahead of time which will operate any vehicle but the very fanciest without discussing starting the engine with the immobilizer at all. Preventing them from accessing it is also preventing a tech from doing so...